My friend Adam has a way of digging up stories that make me want to give up on America. I mean, okay, it’s possible that this kind of story isn’t crazy, right? Look, a title like Student Arrested For Terroristic Threatening Says Incident A Misunderstanding, I could take that seriously enough. Or, I used to be able to. Any kid planning an attack on his high school would claim it was a misunderstanding if he were caught before the fact, wouldn’t he? A George Rogers Clark High School junior arrested Tuesday for making terrorist threats told LEX 18 News Thursday …
Month: February 2005
Lime’s Published!
Last night, when I met Lime for dinner, she presented me with a book. Now, it’s a book in Korean, and you may not be able to guess why I was so proud of her when she gave it to me. The reason is, the book extensively quotes her writings. See, when she was living in Canada on a Working Holiday Visa, she—a webgeek of enormous proportions, almost as much of a webgeek as I am—wrote a lot about it, online. There’s a daum cafe out there somewhere that has a huge log of her writing on the subject of …
How To Tell Japs From The Chinese
That’s the subject of this article from a 1941 issue of Life magazine, to which a link was provided by the marvelous Oranckay. It seems ridiculous and over the top to see images like these: … but then again, I occasionally still hear (Korean) people claiming they can, on sight, differentiate between Koreans, Japanese, and Chinese. Here’s a fun game that tests that assertion.
Images From Iraq and Iran
Two links via Raed in the Middle: An Iranian telling Bush what he thinks of th blue-tipped finger images from Iraq, and a look at what I think Iraqis will probably remember about the American occupation. (Warning, the images are very graphic, and some of you may regret clicking through. But it’s also reality, and something we’ll need to face up to for a long time, much longer than Bush will be in office.)
Creation Science Is No Kind of Science
via Holbrook at Tedious and Brief?, here’s a link to an article on the nonsensical arguments creationists use against evolution. As Holbrook quips, Gravity is a theory, dumbass. It’s worth reading if for nothing else than arming yourself against the irrationalists.